Books for the First-Year Experience®

BOOKS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE®

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Macmillan is pleased to offer a diverse selection of broadly appealing, critically acclaimed books—all of them ideally suited for First-Year Experience and Common Reading programs. Accessible yet challenging, timely yet classic, these are books that invite campus-wide discussion while also fostering individual growth, that ask questions and make demands of all who pick them up—books meant to open doors, change minds, undercut assumptions, spark debates. Above all, these books will help students to succeed across all manner of academic disciplines by addressing them—and stimulating them, and moving Table of Contents them—as only the best books can. As a class or on their own, first-year students achieve their very best, as readers Nonfiction 2 and as students, when they’re “on the same page” as their Graphic Novels 62 peers. That’s where these books come in. Poetry 64 Fiction 66 College Success 76 LaunchPad 79 Insider’s Guides 79 Macmillan Speakers 80 Curriculum Solutions 81 Keep in Mind 82 Ordering Information 83

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1 Real American A Memoir Julie Lythcott-Haims

Selected for the First-Year Experience programs at Bates College

NONFICTION (ME) and Atlanta Metropolitan State College

Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called “micro” aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person’s inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims’s Julie Lythcott-Haims is the New York Times path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult. in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly She holds a B.A. from Stanford, a J.D. from considered “the other.” The author of the New York Times Harvard Law School, and an M.F.A. in Writing bestselling anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to from California College of the Arts. She is a Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims has written a different member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, sort of book this time out, but one that will nevertheless and resides in the Bay Area with her husband, resonate with legions of students, educators, and parents. their two teenagers, and her mother. Real American is an affecting memoir, an unforgettable cri de coeur, and a clarion call to all of us to live more wisely, generously and fully.

“Julie Lythcott-Haims has written a deeply affecting memoir about growing up biracial. It’s poetic and candid, and it dives © Kristina Vetter into discussions we really ought to be having about race in America—past, present and future.” —Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune

St. Martin’s Griffin Paperback | 288 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9781250296733 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

2 The Sun Does Shine

How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row NONFICTION Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB SUMMER 2018 SELECTION

Selected for the First-Year Experience program at Metropolitan State University of Denver

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on death row at Holman State Prison in Anthony Ray Hinton spent nearly thirty agonizing silence—full of despair and anger toward all years on death row for crimes he didn’t commit. those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But Released in April 2015, Hinton now speaks widely as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not on prison reform and the power of faith and only to survive, but find a way to live on death row. For the forgiveness. He lives in Alabama. next twenty-seven years he was a beacon—transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary

“No one I have represented has inspired me more than Anthony Ray Hinton and I believe his compelling and unique story will similarly inspire our nation and readers all over the world.” —Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 288 pages | $26.99 ISBN: 9781250205797 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

PAPERBACK AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2019

3 In the Country We Love My Family Divided Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE ALA/YALSA ALEX AWARD

Selected for 6 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Guilford College, the University of Houston, and the University of South Carolina-Beaufort

Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life Diane Guerrero is an actress on the hit and a successful acting career for herself, without the shows Orange is the New Black and Jane the support system of her family. In the Country We Love is a Virgin. She also volunteers with the nonprofit moving, heartbreaking story of one woman’s extraordinary Immigrant Legal Resource Center and was named resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of an Ambassador for Citizenship and Naturalization undocumented residents in this country. This memoir by the White House. She lives in New York City. is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much- needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families like the author’s and on a system that fails them over and over.

“In the Country We Love is a necessary story for our times . . . © Marcus Branch A heartrending memoir that humanizes the story of America’s immigration policies.” —San Antonio News-Express

Michelle Burford is a founding editor of O, The Oprah Magazine and writer of many St. Martin’s Griffin best-selling books including memoirs by Olympic Paperback | 272 pages | $16.99 gymnast Gabby Douglas, singer Toni Braxton, ISBN: 9781250134967 and Michelle Knight. e-book

SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION AVAILABLE En el país que amamos Paperback | 304 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9781627798334 e-book

4 Bored and Brilliant

How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your NONFICTION Most Productive and Creative Self Manoush Zomorodi

Manoush Zomorodi, creator of WNYC’s popular podcast and radio show Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jump-start their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem. Manoush explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, exploring how we can harness boredom’s hidden benefits to become our most productive and creative selves without totally abandoning our gadgets in the process. Grounding the book in the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of “mind Manoush Zomorodi is the creator of WNYC’s wandering”—what our brains do when we’re doing podcast Note to Self and the co-founder of Stable nothing at all—Manoush includes practical steps you Genius Productions, a media company with a can take to ease the nonstop busyness and enhance your mission to help people navigate personal and ability to dream, wonder, and gain clarity in your work and global change. Zomorodi gave a TED Talk about life. The outcome is mind-blowing. Unplug and read on. surviving information overload and the “Attention Economy” and was one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018. Follow her on Twitter: @manoushz. © Amy Pearl

Picador Paperback | 208 pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9781250126658 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

5 Walking to Listen 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time Andrew Forsthoefel

Selected for 4 First-Year Experience programs, most recently

NONFICTION at Berkshire School (MA), Elms College (MA), and Lipscomb University (NH)

At twenty-three, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read “Walking to Listen.” He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn’t know how. So he decided he’d walk. And listen. It would be a cross-country quest for guidance, and everyone he met would be his guide. Walking toward the Pacific, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, Andrew Forsthoefel is a writer, speaker, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible and peace activist living in the Pioneer Valley kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories of western Massachusetts. He co-produced a with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. radio documentary about this project that was Often he didn’t know how to respond. How to find unity in featured on Transom.org and This American Life. diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to He currently organizes walks and workshops tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, that teach participants to become trustworthy and to the existential questions every human must face, listeners. and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it’s the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself at the most human level. © Luke Forsthoefel “This is a deeply felt account of the trials and tribulations of growing up . . . Enjoy a journey across our country through this fascinating young man’s eyes as he recounts and ponders the stories and life philosophies from people he meets along the way.” —The Boston Globe

Bloomsbury Paperback | 400 pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9781632867018 e-book

6 Losing Earth

Nathaniel Rich NONFICTION AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2019

By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change—what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking account of that failure—and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and the Republican Party full committed to anti-scientific denialism—is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of The New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and John Hersey’s Hiroshima. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation. In Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more Nathaniel Rich is a contributing writer at of the context for what did—and didn’t—happen in the The New York Times Magazine and his essays 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully have appeared in The New York Review of Books, into the present day and wrestle with what those past The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing and The Daily Beast. He is also the author of revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a three novels—King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and The Mayor’s Tongue—and a book about film and what we can and must do before it’s truly too late. noir, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and young son. © Meredith Angelson

MCD Hardcover | 208 pages | $25.00 ISBN: 9780374191337 e-book

7 Spare Parts Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream Joshua Davis

NONFICTION Selected for 34 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Broward College (FL), Texas A&M University-San Antonio, and Stony Brook University

In 2004, four undocumented Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much—but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot. They were going up against some of the best collegiate Joshua Davis is a contributing editor at engineers in the country, including a team from MIT. This Wired, co-founder of Epic magazine, and the was never a level competition, and yet, against all odds author of The Underdog, a memoir about his . . . they won! But this is just the beginning for these experiences as an arm wrestler, backward runner, four, whose story will go on to include first-generation and matador. He has also written for The New college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, Yorker, and his writing is anthologized in and service in Afghanistan. Joshua Davis’s Spare Parts is The Best American Science and Nature Writing a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four and The Best Technology Writing. He lives in young men who proved they were among the most San Francisco, California. patriotic and talented Americans in this country— even as the country tried to kick them out.

“Spare Parts illuminates the human side of two polarizing political issues: immigration and education.” © Sebastian Miynarski —The Washington Post

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback | 240 pages | $14.00 ISBN: 9780374534981 e-book | digital audio

SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION AVAILABLE Los inventores Paperback | 224 pages | $14.00 ISBN: 9780374284503 e-book

8 When They Call You

a Terrorist NONFICTION A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele WITH A FOREWORD BY ANGELA DAVIS

Selected for the First-Year Experience program at the University of Richmond

From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a powerful memoir, part personal history, part equal rights movement. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Patrisse, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi—faces of the Black Lives Matter movement— Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, have been regularly called terrorists and a serious threat organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, to America; recently, a petition asked the White House to California. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter, label the Black Lives Matters movement as a “terrorist she is also a performance artist, Fulbright group.” But in truth, they are loving, courageous women scholar, public speaker, and the 2017 Sydney whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for Peace Prize recipient. those victimized by the powerful. In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, © Michael Hnatov Photography Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable. © Curtis Moore “While its importance will not be in doubt, for the significance of Black Lives Matter cannot be overstated, the book’s necessity comes from its other subject . . . The rest of the book— chronicling her evolving sexual identity, her radical is the award-winning author asha bandele redefinition of love, her relationships and eventually the birth of The Prisoner’s Wife and four other works. of her child—uncovers just who she is.” Honored for her work in journalism and activism, —The New York Times Book Review asha is a mother, a former senior editor at Essence, and a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance.

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 272 pages | $24.99 ISBN: 9781250171085 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

9 Dreamland The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

NONFICTION Selected for 6 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Catawba Valley Community College (NC), the College of Southern Nevada, and Ohio Northern University

In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision Sam Quinones is a journalist, author, has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of and storyteller whose two acclaimed books of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican Purdue Pharma’s campaign to market OxyContin, its new, immigration—True Tales From Another Mexico expensive—extremely addictive—miracle painkiller. and Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream—made Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin—cheap, him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico’s “the most original writer on Mexico and the west coast, independent of any drug cartel—assaulted border.” He lives in Los Angeles. “small towns” and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico. Introducing a memorable cast of characters—pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents—Quinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.

“A brisk and startling new book on painkiller and heroin addiction in the United States.” —Los Angeles Times

Bloomsbury Paperback | 384 pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9781620402528 e-book

10 If You Love Me

A Mother’s Journey Through Her Daughter’s NONFICTION Opioid Addiction Maureen Cavanagh

Maureen’s incredible odyssey into the opioid crisis— first as a parent, then as an advocate—is ultimately a deeply moving mother-daughter story. When Maureen and her ex-husband Mike see their daughter Katie’s needle track marks for the first time, it is a complete shock. But, slowly, the drug use explains everything— Katie’s constant exhaustion, erratic moods, and all those spoons that have gone missing from the house. Once Mike and Maureen get Katie into detox, Maureen goes to sleep that night hoping that in 48 hours she’ll have her daughter back. It’s not that simple. Like the millions of parents and relatives all over the country—some of whom she has helped through her nonprofit organization— Maureen Cavanagh is the founder of Maureen learns that recovery is neither straightforward Magnolia New Beginnings, a nonprofit peer- nor brief. She fights to save Katie’s life, breaking down support group for those living with or affected by doors on the seedy side of town with Mike, kidnapping substance use disorder. She has been recognized by The New York Times, CNN, and other outlets for Katie outside a convenience store, and battling the taboo her work fighting the opioid crisis and the stigma around substance use disorder in her picturesque New that surrounds it. England town. Maureen is launched into the shadowy world of overcrowded, for-profit rehabilitation centers that often prey on worried parents. As Katie runs away from one program after another, never outrunning her pain, Maureen realizes that even while she becomes an expert on getting countless men and women into detox and

“An urgent dispatch from the front lines of the heroin epidemic by a mother who witnesses the dissolution of her honor-roll daughter; Maureen Cavanagh’s riveting voice pulls you through this modern plague with honesty, humanity and, surprisingly, with humor.” —The New York Times

Henry Holt and Co. Hardcover | 224 pages | $26.00 ISBN: 9781250297341 e-book | digital audio

11 The Book of Beautiful Questions The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead

NONFICTION Warren Berger

When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. But “questionologist” Warren Berger says that the questions must be the right ones; the ones that cut to the heart of complexity or enable us to see an old problem in a fresh way. Drawn from the insights and expertise of psychologists, innovators, effective leaders, and some of the world’s foremost creative thinkers, he presents the essential questions readers need to make the best Warren Berger, an expert on design thinking choices when it truly counts, with a particular focus in and innovation, is the author of The Book of four key areas: decision-making, creativity, leadership, Beautiful Questions and A More Beautiful and relationships. The powerful questions in this book Question—both published by Bloomsbury. Berger can help you: identify opportunities in your career or also writes for Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and was a longtime contributing editor industry; generate fresh ideas in your own creative at Wired magazine. He has appeared on NBC’s pursuits; check your biases so you can make better Today Show, ABC World News, many times on judgments and decisions; and do a better job of CNN, and as a frequently-used expert source on communicating and connecting with the people around NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in New York. you. In The Book of Beautiful Questions, Berger shares illuminating stories and compelling research on the power of inquiry. © Jerome Levine

Bloomsbury Hardcover | 288 pages | $28.00 ISBN: 9781632869562 e-book

12 A More Beautiful

Question NONFICTION The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas Warren Berger

Selected for 4 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Bowling Green State University (OH), North Central College (IL), and the University of South Carolina

Warren Berger shows that one of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, under-appreciated tool—one that has been available to us since childhood. Questioning— deeply, imaginatively, “beautifully”—can help us identify and solve problems, come up with game-changing ideas, and pursue fresh opportunities. So why are we often reluctant to ask “Why?” As Berger shows, the most creative, successful people tend to be expert questioners. They’ve mastered the art of inquiry, raising questions no one else is asking—and finding powerful answers. The author takes us inside red-hot businesses like Google, Netflix, IDEO, and Airbnb to show how questioning is baked into their organizational DNA. He also shares inspiring stories of artists, teachers, entrepreneurs, basement tinkerers, and social activists who changed their lives and the world around them—by starting with a “beautiful question.” A More Beautiful Question outlines a practical “Why / What If / How” system of inquiry that can guide you through the process of innovative questioning—helping you find imaginative, powerful answers to your own “beautiful questions.”

“Berger presents a simple three-part framework, the ‘Why-What If-How’ model, to guide effective inquiry . . . One closes Berger’s book newly conscious of the significance of smart questions.” —The New York Times Book Review

Bloomsbury Paperback | 272 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9781632861054 e-book

13 We Gon’ Be Alright Notes on Race and Resegregation Jeff Chang

Selected for the First-Year Experience programs at American

NONFICTION University (DC) and Rhode Island School of Design

In these provocative, powerful essays Jeff Chang (author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon’ Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of “diversity,” the roots of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing. Jeff Chang is the author of Can’t Stop Won’t He argues that resegregation is the unexamined condition Stop, Who We Be, and We Gon’ Be Alright. He was of our time, the undoing of which is key to moving the formerly the Executive Director of the Institute for nation forward to racial justice and cultural equity. Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and now serves as the Vice President of Narrative, “There is history and analysis in these pages, and there is life Arts, and Culture at Race Forward. and experience, too, but neither form of storytelling overpowers the other. Instead, what comes through most clearly is a versatile mind in the service of a painful and protracted story, an author who ranges widely before drawing tough conclusions and one who, despite the book’s optimistic title, © Jeremy Keith Villaluz appears deeply pessimistic about things getting any better, much less becoming all right . . . The limits of representation come alive in the author’s unforgettable discussion of the Asian American experience.” —The Washington Post

Picador Paperback | 208 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9780312429485 e-book

14 Locking Up Our Own

Crime and Punishment in Black America NONFICTION James Forman Jr. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

Former public defender James Forman Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness—and thus embraced tough-on-crime James Forman Jr. is a professor of law measures, including longer sentences and aggressive at Yale Law School. He has written for The New police tactics. But the policies they adopted would have York Times, The Atlantic, numerous law reviews, devastating consequences for residents of poor black and other publications. A former clerk for neighborhoods. Forman tells riveting stories of politicians, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, community activists, police officers, defendants, and he spent six years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., where he co-founded the crime victims. He writes with compassion about Maya Angelou Public Charter School. individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas—from the men and women he represented in court to officials struggling to respond to a public safety emergency. Locking Up Our Own enriches our understanding of why our society became so punitive and offers important lessons to anyone concerned about the future of race and the

“Forman has written a masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with recurring crises of violence and drug use in the nation’s capital.” —The New York Times Book Review

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback | 320 Pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9780374537449 e-book

15 Amity and Prosperity One Family and the Fracturing of America Eliza Griswold

NONFICTION Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors’ mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children’s illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what’s really in the water and air. Against local Eliza Griswold is the author of Wideawake opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their Field, The Tenth Parallel, and I Am the Beggar case in court and begin to expose the damage that’s being of the World—all published by Farrar, Straus and done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Giroux. She has held fellowships from the New Soon a community that has long been suspicious of America Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University. Currently a Distinguished outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who Writer-in-Residence at New York University, she is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The lives in New York with her husband and son. faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice. © Kathy Ryan

“These stories, chronicled with such grace and care in Amity and Prosperity, evince a shameful reality about what we are willing to protect and what we are not.” —Meara Sharma, The Washington Post

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover | 336 pages | $27.00 ISBN: 9780374103118 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

16 The Poisoned City

Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy NONFICTION Anna Clark

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. By that time, twelve people had died and Flint’s children had suffered irreparable harm. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only Anna Clark is a journalist living in Detroit. just begun. In the first full account of this American Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, tragedy, The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of The Washington Post, Politico, the Columbia Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, Journalism Review, and other publications. suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one Anna edited A Detroit Anthology, a Michigan town, but could also be about any American city, all made Notable Book, and she has been a writer-in- precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion residence in Detroit public schools as part of the InsideOut Literary Arts program. She has also of democratic decision making. been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the “An exceptional work of journalism. Clark delivers a thorough University of Michigan. account of a still-evolving public health crisis, one with an unmistakable racial subtext . . . Her book is a deeply reported account of catastrophic mismanagement. But it’s also a celebration of civic engagement, a tribute to those who are fighting back against governmental malpractice.” —San Francisco Chronicle © Philip Dattilo

Metropolitan Books Hardcover | 320 pages | $30.00 ISBN: 9781250125149 e-book | digital audio

17 White Rage The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NONFICTION Selected for the First-Year Experience program at the University of Northern Iowa

As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014 and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post showing that this was, instead, “white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,” she writes, “everyone had ignored the kindling.” Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances toward full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American a deliberate, relentless rollback of any gains. Carefully Studies at Emory University. She is the author linking historical flashpoints—from the post-Civil War of many books, including White Rage and One Codes to expressions of white rage after the election of Person, No Vote. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. America’s first black president—Anderson renders visible the long lineage of white rage and the different names under which it hides. Compelling and dramatic in the © Dave Wetty, Cloud Prime Photography unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage adds a vital new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.

“[White Rage] is an extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism bequeathed by white anger and resentment, and to show its continuing threat to the promise of American democracy.” —The New York Times Book Review

Bloomsbury Paperback | 304 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9781632864130 e-book

18 One Person, No Vote

How Voter Suppression Is Destroying NONFICTION Our Democracy Carol Anderson FOREWORD BY SENATOR DICK DURBIN

In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as the nation gears up for the 2018 midterm elections.

“Anderson demonstrates in her powerful new book, One Person, No Vote, the right to vote—a central tenet of our democracy— is under threat . . . Her book drills down into how the right to vote is being slowly erased with too few of us noticing. One Person, No Vote is an important sequel to Anderson’s White Rage.” —The Washington Post

Bloomsbury Hardcover | 288 pages | $27.00 ISBN: 9781635571370 e-book

19 Fair Shot Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn Chris Hughes

NONFICTION Chris Hughes grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and became one of the co-founders of Facebook. In telling his story, Hughes demonstrates the powerful role fortune and luck play in today’s economy. Through the rocket ship rise of Facebook, Hughes came to understand how a select few can become ultra-wealthy nearly overnight. He believes the same forces that made Facebook possible have made it harder for everyone else in America to make ends meet. To help people who are struggling, Hughes proposes a simple, bold solution: a guaranteed income for working people, including unpaid Chris Hughes is the co-founder of the caregivers and students, paid for by the one percent. Economic Security Project, a network of The way Hughes sees it, a guaranteed income is the most policymakers, academics, and technologists powerful tool we have to combat poverty and stabilize working to end poverty and rebuild the middle class through a guaranteed income. He co- America’s middle class. Money—cold hard cash with no founded Facebook as a student at Harvard and strings attached—gives people freedom, dignity, and later led Barack Obama’s digital organizing the ability to climb the economic ladder. This book, campaign for President. Hughes was the owner grounded in Hughes’s personal experience, will start a and publisher of The New Republic magazine frank conversation about how we earn in modern America, from 2012 to 2016. He lives in New York’s how we can combat income inequality, and ultimately, Greenwich Village with his family. how we can give everyone a fair shot.

“Fair Shot is a provocative, experientially grounded contribution to the debate around a once-outlandish idea that if it hasn’t found its time yet is at least having a moment.” —Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle © Lisa Berg

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 224 pages | $19.99 ISBN: 9781250196590 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

20 Falter

Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? NONFICTION Bill McKibben AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2019

Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature— issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic—was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. Drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, this book offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history— Bill McKibben is the founder of the and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the environmental organization 350.org and civilization our forebears built slip away. Falter is a the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. planet but also our humanity itself. He is the author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He lives in Vermont. © Steve Liptay

Henry Holt and Co. Hardcover | 272 pages | $28.00 ISBN: 9781250178268 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

21 We Can’t Breathe On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival Jabari Asim NONFICTION In We Can’t Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the “Master Narrative” and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight wide-ranging and penetrating essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body. What emerges is a rich portrait of a community and culture that has resisted, survived, and flourished despite centuries of racism, violence, and trauma. These thought-provoking essays present a different Jabari Asim was born and raised in St. Louis, side of American history, one that doesn’t depend on Missouri. For eleven years, he was an editor at a narrative steeped in oppression but rather reveals The Washington Post, where he also wrote a black voices telling their own stories. syndicated column on politics, popular culture, and social issues, and he served for ten years “A collection of essays that go wide and deep into the black as the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, the experience in America . . . Asim brings an impressive breadth NAACP’s flagship journal of politics, culture, of experience to these pieces. He places current events within and ideas. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim the context of a legacy that is literary, political, and cultural, Fellowship in Creative Arts and the author of six as well as racial, with a voice that is both compelling and books for adults, including The N Word, and nine convincing . . . A sharp vision that challenges readers to shift books for children. perspective and examine conventional narratives.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) © Shef Reynolds II

Picador Paperback | 208 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9781250174536 e-book

22 The Collected

Schizophrenias NONFICTION Essays Esmé Weijun Wang

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the collected schizophrenias, but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines how schizophrenia Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of has affected her own life. Her initial symptoms The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting worsened in college, and her starkly different experiences Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s at two universities highlight the importance of effectively Best of Young American Novelists in 2017. supporting students with mental illness. Whether She holds an M.F.A. from the University of writing about how she uses fashion to present as high- Michigan and lives in San Francisco. functioning or the complexities of compounding factors such as PTSD, “Wang’s analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher, allows her to balance hard facts with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels

Graywolf Press Paperback | 224 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781555978273 e-book

23 The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE NONFICTION Selected for 16 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at NYU-Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development, Rowan University (NJ), and the University of Michigan-Flint

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species from a Catastrophe and The Sixth Extinction, has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that Times Book Prize. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts. have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. © Barry Goldstein “Arresting . . . Ms. Kolbert shows in these pages that she can write with elegiac poetry about the vanishing creatures of this planet, but the real power of her book resides in the hard science and historical context she delivers here, documenting the mounting losses that human beings are leaving in their wake.” —The New York Times

Picador Paperback | 336 pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9781250062185 e-book

24 Confessions of

a Recovering NONFICTION Environmentalist and Other Essays Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake, and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that Paul Kingsnorth is the author of Confessions residents of the first world would ever make the kind of of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of Essays, Beast, and The Wake, which was climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, a global Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other network of writers, artists, and thinkers in search Essays gathers the wave-making essays that have of new stories for a world on the brink. charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision, that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, © Clare McNamee which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

“This book is refreshing in both a literary respect and an environmental one . . . Kingsnorth’s is a much-needed perspective in the environmental movement, recovering or otherwise.” —The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Graywolf Press Paperback | 208 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781555977801 e-book

25 Tears We Cannot Stop A Sermon to White America Michael Eric Dyson WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE NONFICTION As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man’s voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece “Death in Black and White,” Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop—a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. Tears We Cannot Stop—“eloquent, righteous, and inspired” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long- Michael Eric Dyson has been an ordained burning crisis in race relations will want to read. minister for thirty-five years, occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, is a “[Dyson’s] narrative voice carries a deeper and more intimate contributing opinion writer for The New York authority, as it grows from his own experience as a black man Times, and is a contributing editor for The New in America—from being beaten by his father to being profiled Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony by the police to dealing with his brother’s long-term magazine named him one of the 100 Most incarceration . . . Dyson’s raw honesty and self-revelation Influential African Americans and one of the 150 enables him to confront his white audience and reach out most powerful blacks in the nation. Dyson is the to them.” —Chicago Tribune author of nineteen books, including four New York Times bestsellers. © Nina Subin

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 240 pages | $24.99 ISBN: 9781250135995 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

26 What Truth Sounds Like

RFK, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished NONFICTION Conversation About Race in America Michael Eric Dyson

In 1963, an epochal meeting took place between titans of American society. Robert F. Kennedy and James Baldwin met in Kennedy’s New York penthouse apartment, joined by entertainers Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and young activist Jerome Smith. Baldwin and friends charged RFK with being ignorant of black life and struggle, and Kennedy countered that the black elite emphasized witness— attesting to suffering—over policy. That conflict festers to this day. Every group represented by the people in that room—politicians, artists, intellectuals, activists— has the power to fix what still ails us. Examining the role of everyone from Jay-Z to Kamala Harris and everything from Black Lives Matters to Black Panther, Dr. Dyson asks us all to seize Baldwin’s challenge. What Truth Sounds Like is a powerful call to action, for only when we separate whiteness from America will we fulfill the dream of a true democracy.

“[A] short and passionately written book . . . Dyson’s most interesting and newsworthy observations touch on the role of black intellectuals and activists in the 2016 presidential race.” —Mark Whitaker, The Washington Post

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 304 pages | $24.99 ISBN: 9781250199416 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

27 This I Believe The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman NONFICTION FOREWORD BY STUDS TERKEL INTRODUCTION BY JAY ALLISON

Selected for 93 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Clemson University, the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and the University of North Alabama

Based on the National Public Radio series of the same name, this book features eighty essayists—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins the book’s title. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share Jay Allison is an independent broadcast them with others. Featuring a well-known list of journalist and a six-time Peabody Award winner. contributors—including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, He hosted and produced This I Believe on NPR Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill and is the founder of the public radio station Gates, and John Updike—the collection also contains on Cape Cod. essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk from Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells Yellow Pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island’s parole board. The © Nubar Alexanian © Nubar Alexanian result is a trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs—and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them—reveal the American spirit at its best. Included are guidelines for students writing their own This I Believe essays. Dan Gediman is currently the Executive Director of This I Believe, Inc., a non-profit “The cumulative effect of these ‘personal credos’ is inspiring organization based in Louisville, Kentucky. and invigorating.” —Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune More information about This I Believe can be found at thisibelieve.org.

Picador Paperback | 320 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9780805086584 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

28 This I Believe II

The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable NONFICTION Men and Women Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick

Selected for 35 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Hanover College (IN), Tennessee Tech University, and Washington & Jefferson College

This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventy-five more essayists—both writers known and unknown—who complete the thought that begins the book’s title. Among the contributors are musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Bela Fleck, Elie Wiesel, the founder of Craigslist.org, and an anthropology student at the University of Chicago. Each piece, whether poignant or humorous, compels the reader to think about how they have formed their own personal beliefs and about the extent to which they express them to others. Readers will also find wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change. Here is a welcome, stirring, and provocative communion with the minds and hearts of a diverse, new group of people—whose beliefs and the remarkably varied ways in which they choose to express them reveal the American spirit at its best. This edition also contains an appendix on how to write a This I Believe essay.

“By turns moving, thoughtful, cheering and heartbreaking, in an age of irony these essays offer a little something to believe in.” —Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times

Picador Paperback | 288 pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9780805090895 e-book | digital audio

29 Don’t Label Me An Unusual Conversation for Divided Times Irshad Manji

NONFICTION Freedom of speech versus “freedom of screech.” Uncivil showdowns over Civil War symbols. From Trump’s wall to the walls we erect against those we disagree with and even hate, both online and off. America and the world have never been more fractured. Now what? What can decent people do to heal the caustic chasms without compromising our personal convictions? How do we stand our ground yet seek common ground? Where’s the guide to drawing unity from the politics of identity? Don’t Label Me will equip us to engage the “other” in a way that’s at once effective and ethical. Irshad Manji holds a scrappy yet tender conversation with her other: a senior dog named Lily. Raised in a culture that deemed dogs evil, Manji learns from her fur elder the transformative Irshad Manji is founder of the award-winning power of moving beyond labels, be they racial, sexual, Moral Courage Project at the University of religious, partisan, or species-supremacist. Together, she Southern California and the author of The Trouble and Lily show that diversity, when practiced honestly, With Islam, translated into more than thirty languages and later adapted into the encourages conflicting points of view while revealing that Emmy-nominated PBS film Faith Without Fear. we’re all so much more than the assumptions we make Oprah Winfrey selected her as the first winner about each other. Infused with scholarly insights and of the “Chutzpah” prize for boldness. Manji has punctuated with stories about Manji’s experiences as a lived and taught in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, refugee from Africa, a Muslim immigrant to the U.S., and and Los Angeles. She and her wife now reside in a professor of moral courage, Don’t Label Me offers a gift Hawaii with their four rescue dogs. to every global citizen: concrete tips on how to start and sustain the toughest, most taboo conversations.

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 288 pages | $27.99 ISBN: 9781250157980 e-book | digital audio

30 The Empathy Exams

Essays NONFICTION Leslie Jamison WINNER OF THE GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE

Selected for the First-Year Experience programs at Kalamazoo College (MI) and Whitman College (WA)

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others’—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in Exams. Her essays have appeared in the Believer, an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning Harper’s Magazine, Oxford American, A Public wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom Space, Tin House, and The Best American Essays. diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to She is a regular columnist for The New York Times incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped Book Review and lives in Brooklyn, New York. by humility and grace.

“Jamison writes with sober precision and unusual vulnerability, with a tendency to circle back and reexamine, to deconstruct and anticipate the limits of her own perspective, and a willingness to make her own medical and psychological history

Graywolf Press Paperback | 256 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781555976712 e-book

31 A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

NONFICTION Melissa Fleming WINNER OF THE ALA/YALSA ALEX AWARD INCLUDES AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH BRANDON STANTON OF HUMANS OF NEW YORK

Selected for the First-Year Experience program at Shawnee State University (OH)

A Hope More Powerful of the Sea chronicles the life of Doaa Al Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended by the onset of her country’s brutal civil war. In the midst of this chaos, Doaa and her fiancée, Bassem, decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education. They board a dilapidated fishing vessel with five hundred Melissa Fleming is chief spokesperson other refugees, including a hundred children. After four for the United Nations High Commissioner for horrifying days at sea, another ship, filled with angry men Refugees (UNHCR). She travels to war zones shouting insults, rams into Doaa’s boat, sinking it and and refugee camps to give voice to the millions leaving the passengers to drown. Adrift in a frigid sea, of people forcibly displaced from their homes no land in sight, nineteen-year-old Doaa stays afloat on and is frequently quoted in international media, a small inflatable ring and clutches two little girls— including The New York Times, The Washington barely toddlers—to her body. For days, Doaa floats, prays, Post, CNN, and NPR. and sings to the babies in her arms. She must stay alive for these children. She must not lose hope. This book is an emotionally charged, eye-opening true story that represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for the © Alessandra Thomsen © Alessandra Thomsen promise of a safe future.

“Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria . . . [She] recounts their narrative with compassion and without melodrama, and her book is ultimately a story of hope.”—Newsweek

Flatiron Books Paperback | 304 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9781250106001 e-book

32 Butterfly

From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, NONFICTION Hope, and Triumph Yusra Mardini

When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat’s engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with other refugees, there was no hesitation: she dove into the water. Surfacing, she heard desperate prayers and sobbing from the passengers in the sinking boat above her. Between the waves, her elder sister Sarah screamed at her to get back on the boat. But Mardini was determined. She was not going to let Sarah do this alone. Grabbing the rope with one hand, she began kicking up the black water, inching the boat towards the distant shore. This bold act of bravery saved the lives of a boatload of refugees heading to Turkey from Syria. After her arrival in Greece, Mardini, focused and undeterred, Yusra Mardini is an Olympic swimmer and a worked toward a lifelong goal: to compete in the Olympics. UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. She competed in She succeeded, and competed in 2016 on the Refugee the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a member Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro. Butterfly tells her story, of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team. Mardini is from Syria to the Olympics to her current work with the from Damascus, Syria. UN as a Goodwill Ambassador. Mardini is eager to tell her story in the hopes that readers will remember that refugees are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, chased from their homes by a devastating war. In today’s political climate, this story is guaranteed to inspire and educate readers from every background. © Thomas Duff

“[Mardini] offers an exceedingly rare window into middle-class girlhood in the middle of one of the most destructive wars of our time, and an even rarer start-to-finish account of the arduous migrant journey into Europe.” —The New York Times

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 288 pages | $26.99 ISBN: 9781250184405 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

33 How to College What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There) Andrea Malkin Brenner and Lara Hope Schwartz NONFICTION AVAILABLE IN MAY 2019

The transition from high school—and home—to college can be stressful for students and their families. Students and parents arrive on campus unprepared for what college is really like. Academic standards and expectations are different from high school; families aren’t present to serve as “scaffolding” for students; and students have to do what they call “adulting.” Nothing in the college admissions process prepares students for these new realities. As a result, first-year students report higher stress, more mental health issues, Andrea Malkin Brenner consults with and lower completion rates than in the past. In fact, colleges who wish to create their own first-year up to one third of first-year college students will not transitions courses. She was a faculty member return for their second year—and colleges are reporting in the Department of Sociology at American an increase in underprepared first-year students. University for 20 years. How to College is here to help. Andrea Malkin Brenner and Lara Schwartz guide first-year students and their families at any point in the transition process, during the summer after high school graduation and throughout the school year, to prepare them to succeed and thrive as they © Carly Glazier © Mike Olliver transition and adapt to college. The first practical guide of its kind, this book draws on the authors’ experience teaching and working with thousands of first-year college students over decades. Lara Hope Schwartz teaches in the Department of Government at the American University School of Public Affairs (SPA) and is the Director of the Project on Civil Discourse. She came to the SPA after a career as an attorney, civil rights advocate, and strategist.

St. Martin’s Griffin Paperback | 272 pages | $16.99 ISBN: 9781250225184 e-book

34 Choose Wonder

Over Worry NONFICTION Move Beyond Fear and Doubt to Unlock Your Full Potential Amber Rae

Why do we hold back from pursuing what matters most? Why do we listen to the voice inside our head that tells us we’re not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough? How can we move beyond the fear and doubt that prevents us from creating a life that reflects who we truly are? Choose Wonder Over Worry is your official invitation to face your fears, navigate your discomfort, and rewrite the “worry myths” in your mind that keep you from being your best and truest self. Journey with inspirational speaker and artist Amber Rae as she connects you with your voice of worry and wonder, teaches you to listen to Amber Rae is an author, artist, and speaker your emotions rather than silence them, and encourages devoted to inspiring people to express the you to seize your dreams. Through a thoughtful blend of fullness of their gifts. She’s been featured on vulnerability, soulfulness, and science, Amber Rae guides the BBC, ABC World News, The New York Times, you in expressing the fullness of who you are and the gifts Time, Fast Company, Tim Ferriss’s blog, and more. you’re here to give. You don’t have to be held back by Previously, Amber helped launch six best-selling worry when wonder awaits you every moment of every day. books as chief evangelist of Seth Godin’s Worry or wonder: which will you choose? publishing experiment and started an “accelerator for your life” called the Bold “If you are a fan of impactful memoir, or a devotee of advice Academy. She lives in Brooklyn and around columns, you’ll probably love Choose Wonder Over Worry— the world. and if you’ve been side-eyeing self-help for as long as you can remember, now might be the time to forget everything you thought you knew.” —Bustle © Masha Maltsava

Wednesday Books Hardcover | 256 pages | $25.99 ISBN: 9781250175250 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

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35 Eat the Apple A Memoir Matt Young

NONFICTION Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone, danger, and stakes for him and his fellow grunts were dialed up a dozen decibels. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young’s story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st- Matt Young holds an M.A. in Creative Writing century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the from Miami University and is the recipient of front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations fellowships with Words After War and the Carey that drove a young man to a life at war. Searing in its Institute for Global Good. His work can be found honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, in Tin House, Word Riot, The Rumpus, and Eat the Apple is a modern war classic in the making elsewhere. He is a combat veteran, and lives in and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the Olympia, Washington, where he teaches writing. insane geography of our times.

“Young is a frank, funny and mercilessly self-lacerating narrator. His writing is entertaining and experimental . . . Eat the Apple is a brilliant and barbed memoir of the Iraq War.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR, Fresh Air © Tara Monterosso

Bloomsbury Paperback | 272 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781632869517 e-book

36 I Was Told

to Come Alone NONFICTION My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad Souad Mekhennet

Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for The Washington Post, journeys behind the lines of jihad—starting in the German neighborhoods where the 9/11 plotters were radicalized and the Iraqi neighborhoods where Sunnis and Shia turned against one another, and culminating on the Turkish/Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. In her travels across the Middle East and North Africa, she documents her chilling run-ins with various intelligence services and shows why the Arab Spring never lived up to its promise. She then returns to Europe, first in London, where she uncovers the identity of the notorious ISIS executioner “Jihadi John,” and then in Souad Mekhennet is a national security France, Belgium, and her native Germany, where terror correspondent for The Washington Post, and has come to the heart of Western civilization. Mekhennet’s she has reported on terrorism for The New York background has given her unique access to some of the Times and other news organizations. She is the world’s most wanted men, who generally refuse to speak co-author of three previous books and was named to Western journalists. She is not afraid to face personal a Young Global Leader by the World Economic danger to reach out to individuals in the inner circles of Forum. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and their affiliates; when she University and has also held fellowships at the is told to come alone to an interview, she never knows Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Geneva Center for Security Policy. what awaits at her destination. Mekhennet—“a brave, resourceful, canny and tireless reporter” (The Washington Post)—is an ideal guide to introduce us to the human beings behind the ominous headlines.

“Much more than a book of journalism, admirable as hers is: it is a remarkable record of a Muslim woman struggling to

St. Martin’s Griffin Paperback | 368 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9781250180575 e-book

37 Formerly Known as Food How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture Kristin Lawless NONFICTION If you think buying organic is protecting you, you’re wrong. Our food—even what we’re told is good for us— has changed for the worse in the past one hundred years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered by the addition of thousands of chemicals, from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating. In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. An Kristin Lawless is a certified nutrition independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless educator and journalist, focusing on the chronicles how this is happening and what it means intersections of food, health, politics, and culture. for our bodies, health, and survival. She is emerging Her work has appeared in The New York Times, as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. The Atlantic, Newsweek, VICE, Huffington Post, After years of “eat this, not that” advice from doctors, and Civil Eats, as well as in academic journals, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something such as The Black Scholar, Critical Quarterly, and completely different: a comprehensive explanation of The New Labor Forum. She lives in Brooklyn with the problem—going beyond nutrition to issues of food her family. choice, class, race, and gender—and a sound and simple philosophy of eating that she calls the “Whole Egg Theory.” Formerly Known as Food is an urgent call to take our food back.

“In this revelatory survey of the dangers of the industrial food © Carin Backoff system, Lawless offers crucial tools for navigating it safely. The best ones have nothing to do with shopping advice: she asks us to think holistically about food, why it can’t be separated from other struggles for justice, and what it means to demand transformative change.” —Naomi Klein

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 336 pages | $26.99 ISBN: 9781250078315 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

38 Mercies in Disguise

A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and NONFICTION the Science That Rescued Them Gina Kolata

Selected for the First-Year Experience program at Hood College (MD)

If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you’d inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In Mercies in Disguise, New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an Gina Kolata is a writer and medical reporter inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the for The New York Times. She has written several disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many books and edited multiple collections of popular saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for science writing. Ms. Kolata lives with her fifty years along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys husband in Princeton, New Jersey. a resolution—not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma—fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. It’s a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did © Andrew Brucker not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young woman—Amanda Baxley—who faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her family’s destiny.

“A moving, suspenseful page-turner that’s likely to become a classic of medical storytelling . . . This wonderful book by New York Times science writer Gina Kolata keeps the compelling human story at center stage.” —The Washington Post

St. Martin’s Griffin Paperback | 272 pages | $16.99 ISBN: 9781250064448 e-book

39 Native Country of the Heart A Memoir Cherríe Moraga

NONFICTION AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2019

Native Country of the Heart is, at its core, a mother- daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherríe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life Cherríe L. Moraga is a writer and an lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga activist. A former Artist-in-Residence at Stanford, charts her mother’s journey—from impressionable young Moraga was recently appointed a professor in girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman the Department of English at UC-Santa Barbara, suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—she traces her where, with her artistic partner Celia Herrera own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and lesbian Rodriguez, she will institute Las Maestras Center identity, as well as her passion for activism and the for Chicana and Indigenous Thought and Art history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails, Practice. She co-edited (with Gloria Anzaldúa) Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of the highly influential volume, This Bridge Called a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and My Back. an American story of cultural loss. © Daniela Rossell

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover | 256 pages | $25.00 ISBN: 9780374219666 e-book

40 American Fix

Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis— NONFICTION and How to End It Ryan Hampton

Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a transpartisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is the hope? Where’s the outrage? Ryan Hampton is someone who has made addiction and recovery reform his life’s mission. Through the wildly successful non-profit organization Facing Addiction, Hampton has been rocketed to the center of America’s rising recovery movement—quickly emerging as the de facto leader of the national conversation on addiction. He understands firsthand how easy it is to develop a Ryan Hampton, a former White House staffer, dependency on opioids, and how destructive it can quickly is a national addiction recovery advocate and become. Now, he is waging a permanent campaign person in sustained recovery from 10 years of to change our way of thinking about and addressing active opioid use. He has worked with multiple addiction in this country. In American Fix, Hampton nonprofits across the country and is a leading describes his personal struggle with addiction, outlines voice in America’s rising recovery movement. the challenges that the recovery movement currently His interviews have appeared on NPR and HLN, faces, and offers a concrete, comprehensive plan of and in Forbes, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, action towards making America’s addiction crisis a and others. He lives in California. thing of the past.

“You can feel Ryan Hampton’s passion, outrage, and hope. American Fix is the social justice call to action we need to put an end to this generation’s most urgent public health crisis. This book will make you rethink everything you know about © Royal Whitney addiction.” —Van Jones, host of the The Van Jones Show and CNN contributor

All Points Books Hardcover | 304 pages | $27.99 ISBN: 9781250196262 e-book | digital audio

41 Live Work Work Work Die A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley Corey Pein NONFICTION

At the height of the startup boom, Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big tech—the relentless optimism, the mandatory enthusiasm, and the earnest, incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwords—Pein decided that he would need to take an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of the tech entrepreneurs, he knew he would have to inhabit that perspective— he would have to become an entrepreneur himself. Corey Pein is an investigative reporter and a Thus Pein begins his journey—skulking through gimmicky regular contributor to The Baffler. A former staff tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business writer for Willamette Week, he has also written ideas to investors, and encouraging a cast of outrageous for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American characters: cyborgs and con artists, Teamsters and Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, transhumanists, jittery hackers and naïve upstart among other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon. programmers who work endlessly and obediently, never thinking to question their place in the system. In showing us this frantic world, Pein challenges the positive, feel-good self-image that the tech tycoons have crafted—as nerdy and benevolent creators of wealth and opportunity—revealing their dangerously inflated

© Patricia Sauthoff egos and their insidious plans for the future. Live Work Work Work Die is a troubling portrait of a self-obsessed industry bent on imposing its disturbing visions on the rest of us.

“A serious contribution to journalism about the tech industry.” —Nikil Saval, The New York Times Book Review

Metropolitan Books Hardcover | 320 pages | $28.00 ISBN: 9781627794855 e-book | digital audio

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42 A Bound Woman Is

a Dangerous Thing NONFICTION The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland DaMaris B. Hill

From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests. For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era’s prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the DaMaris B. Hill is assistant professor dehumanization of confinement—physical, social, of Creative Writing and African American and intellectual—the threat of being bound was real, Africana studies at the University of Kentucky. constant, and lethal. In this narrative-in-verse, Hill Her previous works are The Fluid Boundaries of presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the the personas of these captivating, bound yet unbridled American Heartland, and a collection of poetry, African-American women. Hill’s passionate odes to \Vi-ze-bel\\Teks-chers\. She has two Ph.D.s, one in English and one in women and gender studies. Zora Neale Hurston, Lucille Clifton, Fannie Lou Hamer, A former service member of the United States Air Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and others also celebrate the Force, she lives in Lexington, Kentucky. modern-day inheritors of their load and light, binding history, author, and reader in an essential legacy of struggle.

* (The Sentencing Project)

“DaMaris B. Hill writes the poetry of the bound black woman © Tony Rance across the ages in this haunting, powerful collection. What you will read here is not just poetry, though. This book offers an education. This book bears witness. This book is a reckoning.” —Roxane Gay

Bloomsbury Hardcover | 192 pages | $25.00 ISBN: 9781635572612 e-book

43 Eloquent Rage A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper

NONFICTION Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But in the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. When Cooper learned of her grandmother’s eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. And it took another Brittney Cooper writes a popular monthly intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, column on race, gender, and politics for to turn Cooper into the fierce feminist she is today. In Cosmopolitan. A professor of Women’s and Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers ever win. But homegirls emerge as heroes. This book University, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith Collective, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the in one’s own superpowers are all we really need to turn Los Angeles Times, Ebony.com, and The Root.com, things right side up again. among many others. “Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud even as she kicks the clay feet out from under your cherished idols.” © Ryan Lash Photography —Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 288 pages | $25.99 ISBN: 9781250112576 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

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44 Black Klansman

A Memoir NONFICTION Ron Stallworth NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact a P.O. box, Detective Stallworth does his job and responds with interest, using his real name while posing as a white man. A few weeks later the office phone rings, and the caller asks Ron a question he thought he’d never have to answer, “Would you like to join our cause?” This is 1978, and the KKK is on the rise in the United States. Its Grand Wizard, David Duke, has made a name for himself, appearing on talk shows, and major magazine interviews preaching a “kinder” Klan that wants nothing Ron Stallworth is a 32-year, highly decorated, more than to preserve a heritage, and to restore a nation law enforcement veteran, who worked undercover to its former glory. Ron answers the caller’s question that narcotics, vice, criminal intelligence and night with a yes, launching what is surely one of the most organized crime beats in four states. As the first audacious, and incredible undercover investigations in black detective in the history of the Colorado history. Ron recruits his partner Chuck to play the “white” Springs Police Department, Ron overcame fierce Ron Stallworth, while Stallworth himself conducts all racial hostility to achieve a long and subsequent phone conversations. During the months- distinguished career in law enforcement. long investigation, Stallworth sabotages cross burnings, exposes white supremacists in the military, and even befriends David Duke himself. Black Klansman is an amazing true story that reads like a crime thriller, and a searing portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back.

Flatiron Books Paperback | 208 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9781250299055 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

45 The 57 Bus A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Dashka Slater WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD NONFICTION Selected for the First-Year Experience programs at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Johnson State College (Northern Vermont University)

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, Dashka Slater has written many books, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large including Baby Shoes, The Sea Serpent and Me, public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere Escargot, and Dangerously Ever After. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely Times Magazine, and Mother Jones. She lives burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and in California. facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight.

“It is likely that this account will spark conversations, debates, and contemplation, perhaps leading readers to define for themselves what justice means.” —VOYA © Jacinta Bouwkamp

Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Hardcover | 320 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9780374303235 e-book

46 How I Resist

Activism and Hope for a New Generation NONFICTION Edited by Maureen Johnson

Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they’re bound to inherit. They’re ready to stand up and be heard—but with much to shout about, where do they begin? What can I do? How can I help? How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation. To show readers that they are not helpless, and that anyone can be the change. A collection of essays, songs, illustrations, and interviews about activism and hope, How I Resist features an all-star group of contributors, including, Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his husband Justin Mikita, Alex Gino, Maureen Johnson is the New York Times Hebh Jamal, Malinda Lo, Dylan Marron, Junauda Petrus, bestselling author of over a dozen young adult Jason Reynolds, Maya Rupert, Ali Stroker, Jonny Sun (aka novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, @jonnysun), Sabaa Tahir, Shaina Taub, and more, all The Name of the Star, and Truly Devious. She edited and compiled by Maureen Johnson. In How I Resist, is also the co-host of Says Who, a political readers will find hope and support through voices that podcast about the aftermath of the 2016 election. are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. She lives in New York City. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.

“The world is a bit of a mess, but it’s not always easy to figure out ways to help . . . How I Resist is a perfect activism © Heather Weston guidebook, featuring essays, stories, songs, and more from celebrities and some of the biggest names in YA. Even in dark times, this anthology promotes hope, showing how individual voices and efforts can truly make a difference.” —Bustle

Wednesday Books Paperback | 224 pages | $18.99 ISBN: 9781250168368 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

47 Notes on a Foreign Country An American Abroad in a Post-American World Suzy Hansen

NONFICTION PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.- led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal Suzy Hansen is contributing writer to The New about these countries and their cultures, histories, and York Times Magazine and has written for many politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would other publications. In 2007, she was awarded be what she learned about her own country—and herself, a fellowship from the Institute of Current World an American abroad in the era of American decline. It Affairs to do research in Turkey. She currently would take leaving her home to discover what she came lives in Istanbul. to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a

“A deeply honest and brave portrait of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country’s violent role in the world . . . Hansen is doing something both rare and necessary.” —The New York Times Book Review

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback | 288 pages | $15.00 ISBN: 9780374537838 e-book

48 Voices from

the Rust Belt NONFICTION Edited by Anne Trubek

Where is America’s Rust Belt? It’s not quite a geographic region but a linguistic one, first introduced as a concept in 1984 by Walter Mondale. In the modern vernacular, it’s closely associated with the “Post-Industrial Midwest,” and includes Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. The region reflects the country’s manufacturing center, which, over the past forty years, has been in decline. In the 2016 election, the Rust Belt’s economic woes became a political talking point, and helped pave the way for a Donald Trump victory. But the region is neither monolithic nor easily understood. The truth is much more nuanced. Voices from the Rust Belt pulls together a distinct variety of voices from people who call the region home. Voices Anne Trubek is the founder and director that emerge from familiar Rust Belt cities—Detroit, of Belt Publishing. She is the author of The Cleveland, Flint, and Buffalo, among other places— History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting and observe, with grace and sensitivity, the changing and A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses, and economic and cultural realities for generations the co-editor of Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland of Americans. Anthology.

“This volume is full of lessons for anyone interested in American politics and the future both of the region and of the nation itself.” —Michael Curtis Nelson, PopMatters © Tanya Rosen-Jones

Picador Paperback | 256 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781250162977 e-book

49 A Higher Loyalty Truth, Lies, and Leadership James Comey

NONFICTION In A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush A Yonkers, New York native, James Comey administration’s policies on torture and electronic attended the College of William and Mary and surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail the University of Chicago Law School. After law investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign school, Comey joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most the Southern District of New York as an Assistant consequential cases and policies of recent history. U.S. Attorney; he then became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia; and in 2013 was sworn in as the seventh director of the “[An] absorbing new book . . . Comey’s book fleshes out the FBI, appointed to the post by President Barack testimony he gave before the Senate Intelligence Committee Obama. in June 2017 with considerable emotional detail, and it showcases its author’s gift for narrative.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review © Rouse Photography Group, LLC

Flatiron Books Hardcover | 304 pages | $29.99 ISBN: 9781250192455 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

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50 Conservatism

An Invitation to the Great Tradition NONFICTION Roger Scruton

In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and evolution of the conservative movement over the centuries. With the clarity and authority of a gifted teacher, he discusses the ideology’s perspective on civil society, the rule of law, freedom, morality, property, rights, and the role of the state. Scruton analyzes the origins and development of conservatism through the philosophies and thoughts of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman, among others. He shows how conservative ideas have influenced the political sector through the careers of a diverse cast of politicians, such as Thomas Sir Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, Calvin Coolidge, Winston who has published more than forty books in Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. philosophy and politics, including Kant and An He also takes a close look at the changing relationship Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy. He is between conservative politics, capitalism, and free a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of markets in both the U.K. and the U.S. In a time when the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches in both many claim that conservatives lack a unified intellectual England and America and is a Senior Fellow at belief system, this book makes a very strong case to the the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington contrary, one that politically-minded readers will find D.C. He is currently teaching an M.A. in compelling and refreshing. Philosophy for the University of Buckingham.

“In these polarized times, his call for discussion of conservative intellectual traditions is welcome . . . Readers will find Scruton’s deft handling of a variety of conservative thinkers enlightening.” —The New York Times Book Review © Peter Helme

All Points Books Hardcover | 176 pages | $24.99 ISBN: 9781250170569 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

51 No Barriers A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy NONFICTION FOREWORD BY BOB WOODRUFF

Selected for the First-Year Experience programs at Colorado Mountain College and Troy University (AL)

No Barriers is about Erik Weihenmayer’s journey since coming down from Mt. Everest in 2001, and the path to where he is today. It is the story of his life, the personal and professional struggles in the pursuit of growth, learning, and family, as well as a dream to kayak one of the world’s great rivers as a blind athlete. It is also about the many people he has encountered along the way who possess what he calls a “No Barriers” mindset. This book Erik Weihenmayer is a bestselling author, highlights these pioneers who give those around them athlete, adventurer, and motivational speaker. the courage to do great things. People who have risked He is the only blind person to reach the summit failure, transcended their personal barriers, and shown of Mount Everest. He is the author of Touch the others a way forward: scientists, innovators, artists and Top of the World and The Adversity Advantage. He co-founded No Barriers USA, which helps musicians, climbers and adventurers, activists and those with special challenges to live active soldiers. No Barriers is a ways of living, and it exists in all and purposeful lives. He lives in Colorado. of us, like a deep internal light. But sometimes through trauma, loss, isolation, and disillusionment, people get shoved into a dark place, and that light is almost extinguished. Making hard choices is what feeds that light, and becomes the energy we need to propel us forward. No Barriers is about making the hard choices

“No Barriers is more than an incredible adventure story— it’s a beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve Buddy Levy is a journalist, speaker, and more than you ever thought possible.” author of numerous books, including River —Brad Meltzer, co-author of The First Conspiracy of Darkness and Geronimo (with Mike Leach). He teaches writing at Washington State University and lives in Idaho. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin Paperback | 480 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9781250088796 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

52 The View from

Flyover Country NONFICTION Dispatches from the Forgotten America Sarah Kendzior

In 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera and published them as The View from Flyover Country, which became an e-book bestseller and garnered praise from readers around the world. Now, The View from Flyover Country is being released in print with an updated introduction and epilogue that reflect on the ways that the Trump presidency was the certain result of the realities first captured in Kendzior’s essays. A clear-eyed account of the realities of life in America’s overlooked heartland, this book is a piercing critique of the labor exploitation, race relations, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the post-employment economy Sarah Kendzior is a writer who lives in that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat. St. Louis, Missouri. She is currently an op-ed The View from Flyover Country is necessary reading for columnist for The Globe and Mail and the co-host anyone who believes that the only way for America to of Gaslit Nation, a biweekly podcast which covers fix its problems is to first discuss them with honesty the rise of autocracy in the U.S. and corruption and compassion. in the Trump administration. Her reporting has been featured in many publications, including the “This is a newly released collection of essays from the talented Chicago Tribune, Politico, Slate, The Atlantic, and Kendzior, who writes intelligently and with great empathy about The New York Times. problems faced by the Midwest.” —Mackenzie Dawson, New York Post

Flatiron Books Paperback | 256 pages | $12.99 ISBN: 9781250189998 e-book | digital audio

53 Good Kids, Bad City A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America Kyle Swenson NONFICTION In the early 1970s, three African-American men—Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson—were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio. The prosecution’s case, which resulted in a combined 106 years in prison for the three men, rested on the more-than-questionable testimony of a pre-teen, Ed Vernon. The actual murderer was never found. Almost four decades later, Vernon recanted his testimony, and Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were released. But while their exoneration may have ended one of American history’s most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment Kyle Swenson is a reporter for The remain on trial. Interweaving the dramatic details of the Washington Post. A finalist for the Livingston case with Cleveland’s history—one that, to this day, Award for Young Journalists, he is also the is fraught with systemic discrimination and racial recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature tension—Swenson reveals how this outrage occurred reporting. His work has appeared in The Village and why. Good Kids, Bad City is a work of astonishing Voice and The New Republic, and Longreads. empathy and insight: an immersive exploration of race in America, the struggling Midwest, and how lost lives can be recovered. © Michael E. Miller

Picador Hardcover | 304 pages | $29.00 ISBN: 9781250120236 e-book

54 Picking Cotton

Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption NONFICTION Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo

Selected for 16 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Queensborough Community College (NY), Somerset Community College (KY), and the University of Kentucky

In 1984, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and because she had studied his face intently during the attack, she later identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken—but Jennifer’s positive identification was the evidence that compelled a jury to put him behind bars. After eleven years in prison, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino lives Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his in North Carolina with her family. She speaks innocence. He was released after serving more than a frequently about the need for judicial reform decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two and is a member of the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission. years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face. They forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. In their own words, Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge ideas about memory and judgment while demonstrating the

“The story of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, as told in first-person voices in this gripping, well-written book, Ronald Cotton speaks at various schools and is exceptional.” —St. Petersburg Times conferences about issues of witness identification and judicial reform. He lives in North Carolina with his family.

St. Martin’s Griffin Paperback | 320 pages | $17.99 ISBN: 9780312599539 e-book

55 Factfulness Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World— and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling NONFICTION and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

When asked simple questions about global trends— what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world of international health and renowned public into two camps (usually some version of us and them) educator. He was an adviser to the World Health to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded we perceive progress (believing that most things are Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and the getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by viewed more than 35 million times, and he unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the was listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017. than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can Rönnlund, Hans’s son and daughter-in-law, are lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation. They have both received international awards most. Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that for their work. will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.

“Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.”—Former U.S. President Barack Obama

Flatiron Books Hardcover | 352 pages | $27.99 ISBN: 9781250107817 e-book

56 In Shock

My Journey from Death to Recovery NONFICTION and the Redemptive Power of Hope Dr. Rana Awdish

Dr. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospital would result in hemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. But after her first visit, Dr. Awdish spent months fighting for her life, enduring consecutive major surgeries and experiencing multiple overlapping organ failures. At each step of the recovery process, she was faced with something even more unexpected: repeated cavalier behavior from her fellow physicians—indifference following human loss, disregard for anguish and suffering, and an exacting emotional distance. In Shock allows the reader to transform alongside Dr. Awidsh and watch what she discovers in our carefully-cultivated, Dr. Rana Awdish is the Director of the yet often misguided, standard of care. She comes to Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford understand the fatal flaws in her profession and in her Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and a critical care own past actions as a physician while achieving, through physician. She was recently named Medical unflinching presence, a crystalline vision of a new Director of Care Experience for the Henry Ford and better possibility for us all. As Dr. Awdish finds Health System. She was awarded the Speak-Up herself up against the same self-protective partitions Hero Award for her work on improving she was trained to construct as a medical student communication, as well as the Critical Care and physician, she artfully illuminates the dysfunction Teaching Award. of disconnection. Shatteringly personal, and yet wholly universal, she offers a brave road map for anyone navigating illness while presenting physicians with a new paradigm and rationale for embracing the emotional bond between doctor and patient.

“Awdish’s story is grueling: a catastrophic miscarriage, multiple organ failure, the uncertainty that accompanies a sudden medical crisis. In Shock searches for a glimmer of hope in life’s darkest moments, and finds it.” —The Washington Post

Picador Paperback | 272 Pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9781250293770 e-book

57 Gigged The End of the Job and the Future of Work Sarah Kessler

NONFICTION One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy”—one that provides neither the guarantee of steady hours nor benefits—emerged out of the digital era and has revolutionized the way we do business. High-profile tech start-ups such as Uber and Airbnb are constantly making headlines for the disruption they cause to the industries they overturn. But what are the effects of this disruption, from Wall Street down to Main Street? What challenges do employees and job-seekers face at every level of professional experience? Gigged offers deeply-sourced, up-close-and-personal accounts of our new economy. From the computer programmer who chooses exactly which hours he works each week, to the Uber driver who starts a union, to the charity worker Sarah Kessler is a reporter at Quartz, where who believes freelance gigs might just transform a she writes about the future of work. Before joining declining rural town, Sarah Kessler follows a wide range Quartz in 2016, she covered the gig economy as of individuals from across the country to provide a a senior writer at Fast Company and managed nuanced look at how the gig economy is playing out in startup coverage at Mashable. Her reporting has real-time. Kessler wades through the hype and hyperbole been cited by The Washington Post, New York to tackle the big questions: What does the future of work magazine, and NPR. look like? Will the millennial generation do as well as their parents? How can we all find meaningful, well-paid work?

“Kessler’s timely book explores the personal, corporate and societal stories behind a massive tech-driven shift away from permanent office-based employment . . . Perhaps the most © Celine Grouard revealing parts of the book are the stories of real workers in the gig economy.” —Financial Times

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58 Automating Inequality

How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, NONFICTION and Punish the Poor Virginia Eubanks

Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor contain, investigate, discipline, and punish the destitute. of Political Science at the University at Albany, Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before SUNY. She is the author of Digital Dead End them, digital tracking and automated decision-making and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the Let Nobody Turn Me Around. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane and economic justice movements. Today, she is a choices: which families get food and which starve, who founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project has housing and who remains homeless, and which and a Fellow at New America. She lives in Troy, families are broken up by the state. In the process, New York. they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values.

“Riveting (an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy). Its argument should be widely circulated, to poor people, © Sadaf Rassoul Cameron social service workers and policymakers, but also throughout the professional classes. Everyone needs to understand that technology is no substitute for justice.” —The New York Times Book Review

St. Martin’s Press Hardcover | 272 pages | $26.99 ISBN: 9781250074317 e-book

59 One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter Essays

NONFICTION Scaachi Koul

In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it’s a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with Internet trolls, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal Scaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary, stories are pointed observations about life as a woman Alberta, and is a culture writer for BuzzFeed. of color: where every aspect of her appearance is open Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, for critique, derision, or outright scorn; where strict The Hairpin, The Globe and Mail, and Jezebel. gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, She lives in Toronto. leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself. With a sharp eye and biting wit, incomparable rising star and cultural observer Scaachi Koul offers a hilarious, scathing, and honest look at modern life. © Barbara Simkova “Drawing comparisons to Mindy Kaling and Roxane Gay, Koul is a voice for outsiders, children of immigrants and just about any other millennial trying to make their way in today’s perplexing world with this entertaining and thought-provoking collection of essays.” —Rolling Stone

Picador Paperback | 256 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781250121028 e-book | digital audio

60 Look Alive Out There

Essays NONFICTION Sloane Crosley

Fans of Sloane Crosley’s previous essay collections know her life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. With Look Alive Out There, Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel, and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself, The Clasp, and two New York Times bestselling and it’s great to have her back—and not a moment too books of personal essays, I Was Told There’d Be soon (or late, for that matter). The characteristic heart Cake, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and How Did You Get This Number. and punch-packing observations are back, but with A contributing editor and books columnist a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a for Vanity Fair, she lives in Manhattan. blazer, really.

“Crosley remains inexorably funny, even as she uses her life and the lives she encounters to take on the heavier issues of aging, loneliness and mortality . . . Look Alive Out There preserves Crosley’s instinct to observe minutiae and uncover answers

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61 Verax The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance: A Graphic Novel Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil Bendib GRAPHIC NOVELS

While reporting on the high civilian death toll from drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, journalist Pratap Chatterjee began to suspect a link to the U.S. government’s reliance on inaccurate electronic surveillance. Together with cartoonist Khalil, he set out to investigate this connection, delving into the workings of the corporations that sell surveillance programs and the military and intelligence agencies that buy them. Along the way, they introduce us to a rich cast of Pratap Chatterjee is the author of characters: contractors, soldiers, reporters, Halliburton’s Army and Iraq, Inc. An investigative whistleblowers, wrongly targeted civilians—and, in reporter who focuses on U.S. warfare and a leading role, the surveillance devices themselves. technology, he has served as a commentator Chatterjee and Khalil learn the many ways that for BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC; written for The New government track people, through both targeted Republic, the Financial Times, and the Guardian; surveillance and indiscriminate data collection. produced segments for Democracy Now! and They discover how spy programs with names like Stellar Channel Four, and hosted a weekly radio show for Wind and hardware tools named Gilgamesh get turned KPFA Pacifica radio. He lives in Oakland, California. into cyberweapons, attacking the infrastructure of hostile states and providing data used to guide drone killings. They recount stories of the daring journalists and whistleblowers—from Edward Snowden to lesser-known

© Khalil Bendib © Khalil Bendib NSA Four to former drone operators—who made sure the world would know the truth. And they consider the threat these mighty systems could pose in the hands of a rogue actor or a vengeful, irrational leader. Verax unlocks a Khalil Bendib is the co-author of Zahra’s complex subject that has never been more urgent and Paradise, which was published in 16 languages makes it accessible to all. and nominated for two Eisner Awards. Born in Algeria, Bendib has lived in Berkeley, California since the 1980s. After eight years as political cartoonist at the San Bernardino County Sun, Bendib now distributes his cartoons to 1,700 Metropolitan Books independent publications nationwide and co-hosts Paperback | 240 pages | $25.00 a weekly one-hour show, Voices of the Middle East ISBN: 9781627793551 and North Africa, on Pacifica station KPFA. e-book

62 Rolling Blackouts GRAPHIC NOVELS Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq Sarah Glidden

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends— reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit—as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war’s refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves. As the crew works their way through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, Glidden observes the reporters as they ask civilians, refugees, and officials, “Who are you?” Everyone has a story to tell: the Iranian blogger, the United Nations Sarah Glidden is the author of How to refugee administrator, a taxi driver, the Iraqi refugee Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, which deported from the U.S., the Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria, has been translated into five languages. and even the American Marine. Painted in her trademark Glidden’s work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines and anthologized soft, muted watercolors and written with a self-effacing in The Best American Comics. She lives in humor, Rolling Blackouts cements Glidden’s place as one Seattle, Washington. of today’s most original nonfiction voices.

“Glidden’s clean, spare cartoons take a behind-the-scenes approach. Readers expecting a book about the region and its recent history may be surprised at how many pages are taken up with heartfelt conversations on the theme, ‘What is © Alex Stonehill journalism?’” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’s Magazine

Drawn and Quarterly Hardcover | 304 pages | $24.95 ISBN: 9781770462557 e-book

63 Citizen An American Lyric Claudia Rankine WINNER OF THE JACKSON POETRY PRIZE

POETRY WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

Selected for 33 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Brandeis University (MA), Utica College (NY), and Old Dominion University (VA)

Claudia Rankine’s new book—“a precise, complex, clear-eyed, and masterful work of art” (Guernica)— recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives Claudia Rankine is the author of four in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the previous books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field An American Lyric. She currently teaches at with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all Pomona College. the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named “post-race” © John Lucas society.

“Rankine defies genre and writes honestly and relentlessly about being black in modern America. This book is necessary in every sense of the word.” —Roxane Gay, Esquire

Graywolf Press Paperback | 160 pages | $20.00 ISBN: 9781555976903 e-book

64 Deaf Republic Poems POETRY Ilya Kaminsky

Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. Though it is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, we recognize that it could be Russia, or more likely the United States. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—in that moment, all have gone deaf. Inside this literal and metaphorical silence, their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence, including the brash Momma Galya, Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater, and Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. Alfonso and Sonya, a newly married couple expecting their He is the author of a previous poetry collection, child. These poems link together into a cohesive narrative the award-winning Dancing in Odessa, and that unfolds episodically, like a play. Drawing from Ilya co-editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Kaminsky’s own experience growing up deaf in the former Poetry. He was a 2014 finalist for the Neustadt Soviet Union, Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious International Prize for Literature, and has atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. received numerous honors, including a Whiting This terrifying, beautiful, and supremely original book Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a could have only been written by Ilya Kaminsky, who with Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been this long-awaited new work affirms his place as one of translated into more than twenty languages. our most dazzling and important literary voices.

“Deaf Republic is a stunning and prescient drama, like the best books of Márquez and Kundera. Not many American poets, not many poets anywhere are engaged in this kind of work.

Graywolf Press Paperback | 80 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781555978310 e-book

65 Make Your Home Among Strangers A Novel

FICTION Jennine Capó Crucet WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL LATINO AWARD

Selected for 26 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Albion College (MI), The College of New Jersey, and Mount St. Mary’s University (CA)

When Lizet—the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school—secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she’s set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Lizet’s older sister—a brand-new single mom—without a steady income and scrambling for a Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of place to live. Amidst this turmoil, Lizet begins her first Make Your Home Among Strangers and a story semester at Rawlings College. But the privileged world collection, How to Leave Hialeah, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, John Gardner Book of the campus feels utterly foreign, as does her new Prize, and Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. awareness of herself as a minority. Struggling both Originally from Miami, she is an associate socially and academically, she returns to Miami for a professor of English and Ethnic Studies at surprise Thanksgiving visit, only to be overshadowed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. the arrival of Ariel Hernandez, a young boy whose mother died fleeing with him from Cuba on a raft. The ensuing immigration battle puts Miami in a glaring spotlight, captivating the nation and entangling Lizet’s entire family. Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that © Monica McGivern will change her life forever. Urgent and mordantly funny, Make Your Home Among Strangers tells the moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it’s the new story of what it means to be American today.

“A smart, scathing, and hiliarious depiction of a Cuban- American girl at a fancy northeastern university.” —Vanity Fair

Picador Paperback | 416 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9781250094551 e-book

66 Her Body and Other Parties FICTION Stories Carmen Maria Machado WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her Carmen Maria Machado’s essays, fiction, sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer, surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted Guernica, Best American Science Fiction and houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Fantasy, and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed is the Writer-in-Residence at the University of had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls-with- her wife. bells-for-eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive

“[Machado’s] use of a vivid experimental lens to show women struggling for agency is startling.” —The New Yorker

Graywolf Press Paperback | 248 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781555977887 e-book

67 The Sellout A Novel Paul Beatty WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

FICTION WINNER OF THE JOHN DOS PASSOS PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians. Raised by a single father, a controversial Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Tuff, sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in Slumberland, and The White Boy Shuffle, and racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank that his father’s pioneering work will result in a memoir and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He is the editor of Hokum: that will solve his family’s financial woes. But when his An Anthology of African-American Humor. father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there He lives in New York City. never was a memoir. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town’s most famous resident—

© Hannah Assouline the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

“The Sellout is a comic masterpiece, but it’s much more than just that—it’s one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time, written by an author who truly understands what it means to talk about the history of the country.” —NPR

Picador Paperback | 304 pages | $16.00 ISBN: 9781250083258 e-book

68 King Zeno A Novel FICTION Nathaniel Rich

New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation’s. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans’s faded mercantile glory. The war is ending and a prosperous new age dawns. But everything is thrown into chaos by a series of murders committed by an ax-wielding maniac with a peculiar taste in music. The ax murders scramble the fates of three people from different corners of town. Detective William Bastrop is an army veteran haunted by an act of wartime cowardice, recklessly bent on Nathaniel Rich is the author of two novels: redemption. Isadore Zeno is a jazz cornetist with a Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor’s Tongue. dangerous side hustle. Beatrice Vizzini is the widow He is a contributing writer at The New York Times of a crime boss who yearns to take the family business Magazine and his essays have appeared in The straight. Each nurtures private dreams of worldly glory New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Harper’s and eternal life, their ambitions carrying them into dark Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Daily Beast. territories of obsession, paranoia, and madness. In New He is also the author of a book about film noir, Orleans, a city built on swamp, nothing stays buried long. San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present. He lives in New Orleans. “King Zeno offers a gritty, panoramic portrait of the Big Easy, from its brothels and concert halls to the mansions of the Garden District . . . Full of sharply rendered characters, gallows humor and finely observed descriptions . . . A remarkable achievement.” —John Michaud, The Washington Post © Meredith Angelson

Picador Paperback | 400 pages | $19.00 ISBN: 9781250310347 e-book | digital audio

69 The City Always Wins A Novel Omar Robert Hamilton WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE

FICTION WINNER OF THE ARAB LITERARY AWARD

The City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo’s surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They are—they believe—fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making. From the communal highs of night battles against the police to the solitary lows of post- revolutionary exile, Omar Robert Hamilton’s bold debut cuts to the psychological heart of one the key chapters in the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Based in Cairo and New lyrical, uncompromisingly political, and brutal in its York, he has written for The Guardian, the London poetry, The City Always Wins is a novel not just about Review of Books, and Guernica. He is co-founder Egypt’s revolution, but about a global generation that of both Mosireen, a Cairo media collective formed tried to change the world. in 2011, and the Palestine Festival of Literature. “Powerfully transmits the hope and despair of Egypt’s Tahrir Square generation . . . One of the defining novels of the Arab Spring.” —The Wall Street Journal © Sam Waxman

Picador Paperback | 320 pages | $18.00 ISBN: 9781250182050 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

70 Here I Am A Novel FICTION Jonathan Safran Foer

In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am—his first novel since Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of and their three sons are forced to confront the distances the novels Everything Is Illuminated and between the lives they think they want and the lives they Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and been translated a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question New York. of how much aliveness one can bear.

“Foer, who first won readers over with youthful exuberance, now proves he can write just as well about growing older. Here I Am is a stunner of a family saga.” —Jenny Shank, The Dallas Morning News © Jeff Mermelstein

Picador Paperback | 592 pages | $17.00 ISBN: 9781250135759 e-book | digital audio | compact disc

71 Annihilation A Novel Jeff VanderMeer NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

FICTION WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; novelist and editor, and the author of the New to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, His fiction has been translated into twenty to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive languages and has appeared in the Library of expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms year’s-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife. came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.

“Annihilation is a book meant for gulping—for going in head-first and not coming up for air until you hit the back

MCD x FSG Originals Paperback | 208 pages | $14.00 ISBN: 9780374537159 e-book

72 Borne A Novel FICTION Jeff VanderMeer

In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company—a biotech firm now derelict—and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech. One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump—plant or animal?—but exudes a strange charisma. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth, now lost to rising seas. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet, against her instincts— and definitely against Wick’s wishes—Rachel keeps Borne. Borne, learning to speak, learning about the world, is fun to be with, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. But as Borne grows, he begins to threaten the balance of power in the city and to put the security of her sanctuary with Wick at risk. For the Company, it seems, may not be truly dead, and new enemies are creeping in. What Borne will lay bare to Rachel as he changes is how precarious her existence has been, and how dependent on subterfuge and secrets. In the aftermath, nothing may ever be the same.

“VanderMeer’s apocalyptic vision, with its mix of absurdity, horror and grace, can’t be mistaken for that of anyone else. Inventive, engrossing and heartbreaking, Borne finds him at a high point of creative accomplishment.” —San Francisco Chronicle

MCD Paperback | 368 pages | $15.00 ISBN: 9780374537654 e-book

73 Salvage the Bones A Novel Jesmyn Ward WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION Selected for 11 First-Year Experience programs, most recently at Alabama State University, Rutgers University’s Douglass College (NJ), and Stanford University

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets; she’s fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake Jesmyn Ward received her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and is the recipient their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She is parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel’s the first female author to win two National Book framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and unforgettable family—motherless children sacrificing Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing memoir Men We Reaped and the author of the where love is scarce—pulls itself up to face another day. novel Where the Line Bleeds. She is currently A big-hearted novel about familial love and community an associate professor of creative writing at against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, Tulane University and lives in Mississippi. brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.

“A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written. It feels fresh and urgent . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her reader’s expectations.” © Mike Stanton —The New York Times Book Review

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74 Binti Nnedi Okorafor FICTION WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD

Selected for the First-Year Experience program at Owensboro Community and Technical College (KY)

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti’s stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive the legacy Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, won the Macmillan of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the Writer’s Prize for Africa for her children’s book, University, itself—but first she has to make it there, alive. Long Juju Man. Her adult novel, Who Fears Death, was a James Tiptree, Jr. Honor List book. She is an associate professor of creative writing and “It’s a fantastic interstellar adventure that follows an impressive literature at the University at Buffalo. central character.” —The Verge © Anyaugo Okorafor-Mbachu

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75 Your College Experience New! Connections Concise Twelfth Edition Empowering College and Career Success John N. Gardner I Betsy O. Barefoot

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76 86 87 Your College Experience New! Connections Concise Twelfth Edition Empowering College and Career Success John N. Gardner I Betsy O. Barefoot

The best—and most—support. Understanding Your College Experience gives practical help to the students who need it most.

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77 86 87 Self-assessment for students, by experts, INSIDER’S GUIDES with instructors in mind. Academic & Career Excellence System DR. PAUL GORE, Xavier University to COLLEGE SUCCESS DR. WADE LEUWERKE, Drake University DR. A.J. METZ, University of Utah These guides provide expert advice and practical tips for navigating the college ACES is a powerful, norm-referenced, experience. They are value-priced for self-assessment that helps students students—just $3.99. Better still, they can be pinpoint strengths and challenges, while package FREE with any Bedford/St. Martin’s providing instructors and administrators College Success textbook. For more about the data they need to support student success, retention, and completion packaging options, contact your local class- and program-wide. Macmillan Learning Representative.

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78 88 89 Self-assessment for students, by experts, INSIDER’S GUIDES with instructors in mind. Academic & Career Excellence System DR. PAUL GORE, Xavier University to COLLEGE SUCCESS DR. WADE LEUWERKE, Drake University DR. A.J. METZ, University of Utah These guides provide expert advice and practical tips for navigating the college ACES is a powerful, norm-referenced, experience. They are value-priced for self-assessment that helps students students—just $3.99. Better still, they can be pinpoint strengths and challenges, while package FREE with any Bedford/St. Martin’s providing instructors and administrators College Success textbook. For more about the data they need to support student success, retention, and completion packaging options, contact your local class- and program-wide. Macmillan Learning Representative.

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81 Keep in Mind

For Colored Girls Climate Justice Who Have Considered Hope, Resilience, and the Fight Politics for a Sustainable Future Donna Brazile, Yolanda Mary Robinson

So Lucky Why I’m No Longer A Novel Talking to White People About Race Nicola Griffith Reni Eddo-Lodge

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Ants Among Elephants The Gift of An Untouchable Family and Our Wounds the Making of Modern India A Sikh and a Former White Sujatha Gidla Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate

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